Hi everyone, There is a media effect here of course. The Conversation UK said no to a pitch I made about holding a virtual COP (a ridiculous idea being floated here in the UK by people that have clearly never been to a COP). Despite this idea being considered in the Guardian and Independent, the Environment Editor said "there's little on climate these days because we're all doing COVID."
Hopefully BAU can start to re-emerge in the coming months. Best, Jen On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:51 AM Gernot Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed plenty of other news still happening -- from locust plagues in East > Africa to 65% oil price drops to continued Trumpian shenanigans. > > All that said, *shouldn't *Covid refocus the sort of stuff we are, in > fact, following? > > I realize all of us experience Covid-19 rather differently -- full > disclosure: I'm married to an NYU Langone/Bellevue doc, a place that'll get > swamped with thousands of cases in the coming days. But I'd think up to > ~30% US unemployment this quarter, ~50% quarterly GDP drop, etc. etc. -- to > say nothing of, well, people dying -- would surely change what we do. > > There's the immediate term: None of us should pretend to be > epidemiologists -- that's what Twitter is for -- but all of us have some > relevant skills. E.g. a couple enviro/natural resource economist colleagues > just wrote a paper within a week > <https://twitter.com/GernotWagner/status/1241484673458593793> on critical > child care needs of medical staff. Their prior medical/child care > expertise: none. They just had the idea and knew how to get and analyze the > data. > > Then, of course, there's the longer term. > > We've all heard the Milton (& Rose!) Friedman quote around how actions > taken in a crisis “depend on the ideas that are lying around.” Well, that > Friedman quote doesn't go the other way. I trust there'll be plenty of > ideas generated B.C. (Before Covid) that will withstand the test of time. > > Many won't. > > We won't all agree what that means. In fact, I trust very few of us have > spent much time on that so far (see: saving lives, now). But e.g. science > denial might look rather different A.C., after millions having experienced > some of the effects first-hand. > > I realize it's easier to teach sunk cost to undergrads than to go through > it oneself and purge that multi-year research project, but I'd venture to > say that, say, the B.C. results of that perfectly designed cross-country > survey on attitudes toward revenue-neutral carbon taxes will feel more like > a historical case study A.C. > > *Gernot Wagner, **New York University* > gwagner.com > *Keep in touch: *gwagner.com/#newsletter > > > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 9:36 PM Pam Chasek <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> And for those of you focused on domestic environmental issues: >> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-environment-coronavirus_n_5e755cf7c5b63c3b6490a703?fbclid=IwAR3k--1qKMx-PzdUgqjedVCyrm3aeb2TBTA2v9ahOPp6p456qzrWXy6LYk4 >> >> Pam >> >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 8:32 PM DG Webster <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> BBC and al Jazeera are slightly better at tracking other news, but not >>> by much. >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:08 PM Wendy Jackson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> To answer your second question, I think it depends on the government >>>> department in question. I work for a foreign ministry (NZ), and almost all >>>> hands are on deck for COVID-19 response. Most countries are having massive >>>> consular emergencies, trying to get nationals back home, responding to >>>> questions from in-country non-nationals, navigating all of the border >>>> complexities (think of people transiting countries, families with mixed >>>> residency status, etc.). I cannot speak for all governments, but here this >>>> effort is requiring resource from across the business. This has an impact >>>> on all work being done; we have people backfilling, and backfilling the >>>> backfilling, but some work is indefinitely postponed. Every govt department >>>> will be affected in its own way (sorting economic packages for business; >>>> dealing with tourists who are still here; sorting out school policy; >>>> ensuring food and other supply chains are stable; etc.). >>>> >>>> I work on a multilateral desk (UN relationship management), and BAU has >>>> slowed to a trickle. As Pam noted, UN meetings are being scaled down, >>>> postponed, or cancelled. Some processes related to those meetings (e.g., >>>> informals, regional consultations) are happening, although at a slower >>>> pace. Multilats are also shifting their focus to COVID-19 matters - how >>>> this manifests will vary by each agency. >>>> >>>> Apologies for writing in haste but hopefully a view from a government >>>> is helpful. >>>> >>>> Wendy >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:38 PM Peter M Haas <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Has anyone got any suggested feeds that cover all the other issues >>>>> that we used to study? 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